Originally Posted by Maximo

I don`t believe pit strategy had anything at all to do with it..Kyle had a comfortable 7 second lead and got taken out 3 minutes to go by lap traffic.. Hara did make 1 less pitstop, but that was a high risk gamble he took in order to try to catch Kyle....Kyle was running strong with a strong lead so there was no need to make a risky pit strategy that could just as easily resulted in a flameout....... Pushing your runtime to the limitscan make a difference, but just as easily can result in a flameout ..sorta like pulling the goalie ya know...

these pros run the engines extremely hard, keeping the engines stable is by far the biggest priority ....running themselves down to the fumes in the tank can really adversely affect the tune and stability of the engine....IMO The juice is not worth the squeeze unless its a do or die situation where you have no other way to win and have nothing to lose.....